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247/365

The end of the rainbow is reached only at the end of the second mile. Christ’s admonition to the faithful in Matthew 5:41: “And soever…

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245/365

A peacemaker always fares better than an agitator. In today’s “everything is negotiable” society, we are bombarded with messages telling us that we get what…

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If life hands you a lemon, don’t complain, but instead make a lemonade to sell to those who are thirsty from complaining. Wally Amos, the…

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Don’t blame children who are bad. Blame those who failed to discipline them. Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed, “Our chief want in life is somebody…

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239/365

If you don’t know why you failed, you are no wiser than when you began.   There’s an old adage that those who refuse to…

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237/365

Failure seems to nature’s plan for preparing us for great responsibilities. If everything we attempted in life were achieved with the minimum effort and came…

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A wise man watches his/her faults more closely than his/her virtues; fools reverse the order. We all have within us the potential for greatness or…

234/365 – Self – Pity

234/365 – Self – Pity

Self-Pity is an opiate. The most insidious problem with drugs is that human body develops a tolerance for them and requires larger and larger doses…

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Human faults are like garden weeds. They grow without cultivation and soon take over the place if they aren’t thinned out.   Habits are formed…

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230/365

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.   Not having a major purpose for your life is like trying to…